Archive for November, 2007

Five faiths that I find hilarious

  1. Faith in email
  2. Faith in computer security
  3. Faith in the “green” movement
  4. Faith in government
  5. Faith in “total information awareness”
2007
11/30
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Duplicate Calendar Items

I ran into a weird issue with my last cell phone… it duplicated (sometimes tripling or quadrupling) many recurring events. I had four Christmas Day events on Dec. 25, and three birthday reminders for my mom, etc. But I was having a hard time deleting them all without removing the ones I actually wanted to keep.

So in Outlook, I set my Calendar’s Current View to “By Category”. This handily sorted all the recurring events and duplicated events into a nice list sorted by Holidays and the like. I then just highlighted everything I didn’t want, including all the holidays, old events, stale recurring appointments, and then hit Delete.

Piece of cake.

Then I went back into Calendar options, and clicked the “Add Holidays” button to populate my calendar with the correct Holiday events.

I figured this would come in handy whenever someone wanted to clean up a calendar of never-ending recurring events. A easily selectable list makes managing multiple events a simple thing.

At least that’s what I like to think.

2007
11/27
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Who would the world elect?

This site asks a simple question: Who would the world elect?

Well looky there… the best candidate (IMHO) is leading the pack.

And by leading, I mean to say, completely blowing the rest away.

It would be nice if the American public would follow suit.

Go, Ron, Go!

2007
11/20
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Not the Daily Show…

2007
11/16
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Baby #2 on the way

Methinks this whole “dad” thing is like an avalanche.

One snowball, and then all of sudden, your covered in snow…

…or babies.

**UPDATE**

ETA: July 7th!

2007
11/14
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Benefit of the doubt

I try my hardest to give people trust. I think the best of them, try to give them the tools they need, try my hardest to help them succeed in my own limited way. I try to give them all the benefit of the doubt when it comes to their own inadequacies.

And ultimately, as many can guess, I am often disappointed. It is so frustrating to try to help someone and still have them fail.

It is almost impossible to trust others. Because you know that eventually they will fail.

As I am sure I will fail.

That’s the trick, I guess. Remembering that I fail others in the future as well. Perhaps in different ways, perhaps in different places and scenarios, but we are all human.

It is a test to get past the failure and hope the best for the individual regardless of the failure or circumstance.

How do you tell them that you cared even though they view you as an accomplice to their own failure? A symptom, if you will, of their issue at hand?

I have no idea. Its hard to think about. They just have to stay locked up within themselves. Because we are all human. And damn Babel, but we can’t communicate worth a shit regardless of the words or movements taken.

Why can’t we have been evolved to be psychic? Wearing someone else’s shoes, at least in thought, would go a long way to making this world a far better place.

Think of the sense of community that would trigger.

2007
11/09
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Ron Paul videos are well done… regardless your view.

Ron Paul, Republican Candidate 2008

2007
11/08
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Ranting on MSNBC

2007
11/08
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Ah crap… this aint good

I took one of those online assessments for which presidential candidate I should vote for here recently. And then I took another one. Then I took another one. Because I thought the first one was way off. But I think after three, I should just accept the obvious truth.

While I don’t really agree with any of the candidates on the direction the country should head, a majority of my value system is wholly Democrat.

For a boy raised as a Libertarian/Republican, this scares the ever-living crap out of me. Not because I would mind being called a liberal, but because everyone in my family is a staunch Republican.

Has the conservatives slid so far to the right that the left is in the middle now? That is crazy.

This country is sliding alright. I don’t know what direction we are all going, but that shit is whack, yo. We are sliding, and the direction is down.

I still think I am conservative. Deep down. I guess my conservatism has been abandoned by the party that used to represent conservatism.

If I ran the country – I know what I would focus on. And it is not what the majority thinks we should be focusing on.

Making this country survive the next 100 years without turning it into a fascist nanny state. Focusing on getting us back in a production mode as a country. Education, Healthcare, investments in our future, fucking lobbyists be damned… focusing on what is inside our country versus what is outside of it. Our foreign policy should be on investment, not war. On education, not killing. On how we can survive as a species for the next 100 years without mass genocide occurring in some part of the world. On how we can build a future that is not bleak, but bright. A future with us focusing up and out. We just have to be smart about it.

And all the old fuckers in office now just don’t get it. We don’t understand as a country, a united people, that we are the ones that have to fix the last 40 years of our parent’s and grandparent’s mistakes.

The stronger we are inside our borders will have the end result of making us stronger outside our borders.

I have no idea why that is not obvious to everyone else.

I think everyone is sheltering themselves from the horrid world. Building up emotional and mental walls to protect them from the truth… that they are not a part of a future thinking society anymore.

We are mired. So how do we get the hell out?

I think I know. And I think many other people know.

But we do not have representation. So we are collectively disenfranchised. As a generation… we are stuck making a choice. Abandoning our ideals for the existing system, or holding onto our ideals and being eternally frustrated. Because what will our votes do? The system is not in control… it has suffered from bloat.

Bloat in a coding sense. It is bloated with excess laws, excess legislation, excess everything. The core is intact, but barely.

We should strip the system down to the core again and optimize.

2007
11/07
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Talk about weird

The buttons on the side of my mouse no longer work under their default settings. I have a logitech mouse with buttons on the thumb side to control pretty much anything… I have mine set to the default forward/back settings for navigation. I click one it should take me back to my previous webpage, and the other should return me to the page I just went back from.

They suddenly stopped operating the way they should. For no rhyme or reason I could tell.

I go into my mouse settings, and change them to anything else, and I mean anything else, and the buttons work. So it is not my mouse.

I reloaded the software, still doesn’t work.

So for some unknown reason, I can’t have forward/back assigned to these buttons.

Which is frustrating as hell when I have been using them for literally years to do my browsing on the net and on my network.

Gah!

2007
11/07
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